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  I think scale is the issue. Basically, it was legal to rape, murder and/or kidnap Africans. It was so profitable that the main slave dealers were African tribes/nations who would sell their prisoners of war to the slave trade - thus encouraging more war and more slavery. Estimates of African deaths (on the low side) are double that of the Holocaust. This went on for 400 years. (Nazi power lasted only about 12 years by comparison.) And even to this day, the African slave trade is responsib...

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  7 Mary 3. They had a hit that sounded dark and grungy. "Cumbersome". The rest of the album was much less angsty/original/grungy. Disappointing.

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  Alas, I fear the US might be too far gone for ranked choice to have an effect. The problem is quality of candidates. Since Citizen's United opened the door for unlimited corporate money in elections, literally 90% of candidates are on someone's payroll. "Grassroots" is a thing of the past. Mass media and name recognition are everything.

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  Look at American history. This really is business as usual, sad as it might be.